Actress/reality star Lisa Rinna finally decided to go under the knife to reduce the size of her infamous and ridiculous upper lip on August 26. The 47 year-old finally admitted that she impulsively had silicone injected into her lips back in 1986 and she couldn’t handle the critics.

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“My lips started to define who I am,” Rinna tells People. “That bothered me. I took a big hit for being honest. It gave everyone online permission to lambaste me. It hurt my feelings.”

“It doesn’t matter what other people think,” she says. “I did it for myself.” After the surgery, Lisa says that rather than feeling “bumpy and uneven … my lip has no lumps! It’s smooth.”

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Lisa, who just launched her new novel “Starlit”, confessed that her lips are still swollen and that will take her more than six months to heal completely. “It’s a work in progress,” admits Rinna, “but I feel fantastic.”

Lisa and her husband Harry Hamlin have their own reality show on TV Land. “Harry Loves Lisa” premieres at 10 pm on Wednesday (October 6).

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